Welcome Neil Williams (a.k.a. spladug)!

Neil is the newest member of team reddit, having joined us just one week ago! We were able to hire him primarily because of your gold subscriptions, so thank you! (Wanna see how many more we can get?Sign up for reddit gold right here.)

In his first week, Neil’s already knocked three items off of my personal todo list. 🙂 In the future he will be helping us in multiple ways, writing features and working on our continued scaling. If you have an idea for what title we should give him, let us know in the comments. If you have an idea of what he should work on, don’t worry, we’ve got a long enough todo list for him already!

Previous to reddit, Neil worked for some government contractor doing boring work with top secret things, so really, we saved him from a life of tedium (no offense to those of you working for government contractors).

In case you are wondering what that is on his avatar’s shirt, I haveno idea. Just looks kinda cool to me. The answer to why he is walking abanana slug is left as an exercise to the reader. I’m told his name is Sammy.

So please, welcome Neil, and don’t forget, if you want to be the next one on the welcome wagon, we are still hiring. If you already applied, we’ll get back to you soon!